There are many Mario Party games, but they all follow the same basic format. Up to four players, controlled by human players or the computer, compete in a board game at once. The goal of the board game is to collect as many stars by advancing along one of several boards. After every player has one turn, a mini-game is played in which the players must co-operate and compete in order to win rewards. Each Mario Party entry has somewhere between 50 and 100 such mini-games, with games rarely being recycled from entry to entry.